The People Behind the Work: USC Viterbi Honors Staff and Faculty at 2026 Awards
Annual ceremony highlights the contributions of staff and faculty who support the school’s research, teaching and operations.
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USC Viterbi Startup Showcase Awards $150K to Student Ventures
From healthcare diagnostics to electric mobility, founders pitched real-world solutions at USC Viterbi’s inaugural Startup Showcase.
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USC ITE team takes first place at regional transportation competition
ISE sophomore Mila Mattson helps lead 10-member team to victory
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She Chose Impact Over Expectation, and Found Her Voice at USC
CLASS OF 2026 – Raised near campus but worlds away from it, this first-generation Eritrean American found her calling in a major she had never heard of, earned a full-ride scholarship, and is graduating this May with two Viterbi degrees and a commencement speech to deliver.
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From “Magic” Hats to Medical Breakthroughs: Alexandra Somodi Engineers Joy and Impact
CLASS OF 2026 – The graduating USC Viterbi senior blends research, leadership and musical theater to create, contribute and connect
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NeuroChron: Detecting Dementia Before Symptoms Appear
CLASS OF 2026 – A graduating team of seniors at USC’s Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering have turned a class assignment into a startup – one with the potential to change how doctors assess and treat neurodegenerative disease.
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Maggie Johnson: A Winner In The Classroom and In The Pool
CLASS OF 2026 – From a rivalry win over UCLA to one of the Big Ten’s highest academic honors, the USC women’s water polo captain and USC Viterbi graduating senior is redefining what leadership looks like.
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Fire, Water, Data: Elements of an Engineer-Entrepreneur’s Education
CLASS OF 2026 – Mitchell Kirby has a talent for converting civil and environmental engineering concepts into promising business models. As he prepares to graduate, he’s chosen to bet on a venture that takes him back to his roots.
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This Algorithmic Framework Is Discovering Novel Chip Designs Never Invented Before
USC researchers invent a chip design method that could accelerate the design of the next generation of wireless devices, from 5G phones to autonomous vehicles, by unlocking designs that traditional chip engineering could never reach.
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From Rocket Engines To Restaurant Kitchens: Jose Hernandez’s Relentless Pursuit of Better
CLASS OF 2026 – Graduating USC Viterbi master’s student Jose Hernandez applies a systems mindset and tenacity to everything he does-with results.
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Built Different: How a Lima Factory Girl Earned Her Viterbi Degree
CLASS OF 2026 – Having earned her Bachelor’s in Industrial & Systems Engineering in December 2025, this USC Viterbi graduate is now crossing the finish line of her Master’s in Engineering Management – and she’s just getting started.
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10 Times Faster, 10 Times Less Energy: Solving AI’s Memory Bottleneck With Algorithms and Coding Theory
USC hosts 20th Viterbi Keynote Lecture featuring Andrew Viterbi and UC San Diego professor Paul Siegel
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Thinking Fast and Slow: How to Turn a PhD into a Startup Incubator
CLASS OF 2026 – Graduating PhD candidate Abel Salinas used his time at USC Information Sciences Institute to develop CommonGround: an AI platform that helps organizations forecast violence and civil unrest, enabling them to proactively protect people, operations and supply chains.
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Four Engineers, One Family: The Bristow Brothers Bring It Home at USC
CLASS OF 2026 – When Duke and Wellington Bristow cross the stage this May, they’ll be completing something their father started decades ago – a family tradition of engineering that’s now four members deep.
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USC Institute on Ethics and Trust in Computing Launched Inaugural Summit
Researchers and industry leaders across engineering, law, philosophy, business and more gathered to discuss key issues in ethical and trustworthy AI at IETC’s first summit
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From Maui to Medicine, Viterbi Helped Her Chart Her Own Path
CLASS OF 2026 – The daughter of Turkish immigrant physicians, Maui-raised Alara Berkmen is graduating from USC Viterbi with a bachelor’s in Biomedical Engineering on the pre-med track, a business club she built from scratch, and a hard-won clarity about who she wants to be and why.
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USC Viterbi’s Karmel S. Shehadeh Lands Prestigious AFOSR Grant
Her research aims to advance the state-of-the-art contextual stochastic optimization methodologies, providing tools for making smarter decisions when the future is uncertain.
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From First-Gen Engineer to PwC: A Four-Year Yes Strategy
CLASS OF 2026 – The first engineer in her family, this Industrial & Systems Engineering graduate from USC Viterbi’s Daniel J. Epstein Department is heading to PwC this fall – with two degrees, a passport full of band trips, and a philosophy she learned the hard way.
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A USC team is targeting the spinal cord to solve paralysis’ most overlooked problem
A new USC study shows that a tiny electrode array can restore coordinated bladder control in rats – proof of concept for a neuroprosthetic device that could transform life after spinal cord injury.
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Engineering Lift-Off: Four Years of Flight, Research, and Curiosity
CLASS OF 2026 – From building LEGO airplanes as a kid to winning back-to-back AIAA regional awards and co-founding USC’s Human-Powered Flight Research Team, Long Beach native Nicholas Lototsky is finishing his bachelor’s in Aerospace Engineering at USC Viterbi the same way he started it: full throttle.
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From Backhands to Breakthroughs: USC Viterbi Students Take Bold Biomechanics Research Worldwide
BME students will present their work at the 10th World Congress of Biomechanics this summer.
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Graduating Engineer, Boston Marathon Qualifier: She Turned Running into a System for Success
CLASS OF 2026 – For graduating USC Viterbi senior Avery Gonzales, engineering and running follow the same logic: break the system down, find inefficiencies and keep improving. That mindset has taken her from a struggling 8th grader to a Boston Marathon qualifier, and from ISE student to a future full-time role at United Airlines.
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USC at ICLR 2026
USC researchers set record for oral presentations at ICLR 2026, with key breakthroughs in language model reliability, multimodal reasoning and robotics
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How Watching Living Cells Could Transform Disease Research and Treatment
USC biomedical engineer Keyue Shen has been elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows for developing tools that measure how living cells signal and interact in real time – without destroying them.